Resources and Tools

We are pleased to present a selection of resources from our sponsors and exhibitors. Keep checking back; we plan to make this a go-to source, and that means we’ll be adding more resources, and even giving you a way to add your own.

Books

5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About Their Kids and Sex

By Anne Marie Miller

In Five Things Every Parent Needs to Know About their Kids and Sex, readers will discover what, when, and how to talk to kids at any age about sexuality, researched and reviewed by professionals in medicine, child development and psychology. You will also learn how to watch for symptoms that your child may be sexually abused and how to discuss this tender topic with children of all ages. There is hope for adults, for children, and for generations to come. It’s time to redeem the conversation!

30 Days of Sex Talks series

By Educate and Empower Kids

Having “The Talk” is one of the more daunting aspects of parenting, but it doesn’t have to be. In this series, we provide simple and short yet effective lessons full of questions, sample scenarios, and conversation starters so you can teach your children about healthy sexuality.

Betrayal & Beyond

By Pure Desire

“How did he get this way? How can I tell if he is getting better? Can I ever trust him again? What do I do now?” The Betrayal & Beyond Workbook, Journal, and Leader’s Guide were designed to answer these questions and more. Created to be experienced in a group setting, these materials promote daily commitment to self-care and health. They provide vital healing tools and reinforce the importance of facing loss, processing anger and hurt, and becoming the women God created you to be.

Building for Freedom

By Troy Haas

For men pursuing honest and authentic relationships with Jesus Christ and other believers through personal study and group support. Designed to engage men both spiritually and practically, this 15-week interactive study addresses the challenges of sexual integrity in profound and life-changing ways.

Christians & Pornography: Pastor & Church Leadership Resource Guide

By Dr. Jay Dennis

Dr. Jay Dennis has created a 300 page comprehensive manual to address pornography in the church & para-church organizations. It will empower and equip pastors and church leaders to attack the epidemic of pornography. This resource provides you practical knowledge and step by step instructions of how to address issues related to pornography within our churches. The manual gives pastors a game plan to begin the conversation about pornography and its unintended consequences. It specifically identifies how to address the subject to pastors, leaders, men, woman, youth & families. A step by step process is provided to create support groups and for leaders to walk through the process with others to break free from the chains of pornography.

Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity

By Dr. Doug Weiss

Every Christian man is born into a sexual war. The enemy attacks the young, hoping to scar them permanently and leave them ruined. But your past is not enough to keep you from the clean life you want and deserve.

Freedom Begins Here Devotional Journal

By Freedom Begins Here

In these 30 days, youll realize that you have choices every minute of every day to focus your thoughts on what is good and right and wholesome, or to let your mind drift back into the swamp of sexual sin. Make the effort. Your family, your friends, your God and sooner or later you, too, will be delighted you did.

This book, due for release in fall 2016, includes the very latest research about how pornography harms individuals, relationships, and society. This eye opening volume is great for teens, 20 somethings, their parents, grandparents, and pastors.

How to Talk to Your Kids About Pornography

By Educate and Empower Kids

Exposure to pornography is inevitable, and we must do what’s necessary to prepare our kids. We’ve made it easy for you with this critical book full of great discussion questions that will foster productive and meaningful conversations between you and your kids.

The Journey

By Melissa Haas

Written for spouses of sexually broken men, Journey is a 10-week counseling and support group for women facing betrayal and loss. Using the Journey workbook, women will work through topics such as ‘Angry – but not Stuck’; ‘Admitting Fears’; ‘Setting Limits’; and ‘Trusting Wisely’.

More than Single: Finding Purpose Beyond Porn

By Covenant Eyes

In More Than Single: Finding Purpose Beyond Porn, we help singles discover freedom from porn and joy in their circumstances. This book covers what all singles need know about the harms of porn, how faith in the Gospel overcomes a desire for pornography, how to handle feelings of loneliness and bitterness, and why the consumption and creation of art is important for finding joy.

Parenting the Internet Generation

By Covenant Eyes

Covenant Eyes is dedicated to helping parents raise their kids to make wise choices online. In Parenting the Internet Generation, we will show parents how to have honest conversations about self-image, sexuality, sin, and shame, provide proven methods for training our children how to be media literate, explain how certain parenting styles can actually enable a pornography addiction, and point towards parental controls and accountability as tools for creating a safer home.

Porn Nation

By Michael Leahy

It’s a $100 billion a year industry worldwide. Even bigger when you consider the fact that porn is now the norm in our mainstream media. But have you ever stopped to think about why, when it comes to porn, we just can’t seem to get enough? Learn more in this book, written specifically for and about college students.

Pure Desire

By Dr. Ted Roberts

There is a battle going on. Millions of victims are trapped in the struggle of sexual addiction with no apparent way out. Pure Desire is the answer to the desperate cry for help from men and women who have tried to build sexual purity into their lives and failed…and failed…and failed. This book is also for the shattered souls of spouses who are puzzled, shamed, and wounded by sexual bondage, and for the Church that desires to build a culture of grace.

Seven Pillars of Freedom

By Pure Desire

The Seven Pillars of Freedom Workbook, Journal, and Leader’s Guide were created to provide help and healing, in a small group setting, for adult men who battle with sexual and/or pornography addiction. Participants gain an understanding of addiction and recovery by using Pure Desire’s clinically-proven and theologically-sound resources.

Setting Us Free

By Nick J. Stumbo

As Nick shares his journey to sexual purity, you will discover how God shows up in unexpected ways and concealed places to bring true and lasting freedom. This isn’t just another book telling you to control your behavior. This is a story of redemption—how God redeems what has been broken and recreates something awesome in one’s heart and life.

Stories for Men

By Pure Desire

Sexual addiction spans a gamut of behaviors: engaging in the solicitation of prostitution, extramarital affairs, pornography, and more. Individual lives are shattered; marriages and families are broken. Whether you struggle with sexual addiction or have been betrayed by your spouse’s addictive behavior, Stories for Men provides encouragement and hope from those who have bravely gone before you. Men of all ages and from all walks of life have selflessly contributed their personal stories, so that others can break free from the bondage of sexual addiction and discover lifelong healing.

Stories for Women

By Pure Desire

This collection of Stories for Women provides a unique approach to understanding the way sexual addiction impacts individual lives. Women from all seasons of life have taken on the challenge of writing their inspirational stories. Each has courageously chosen to take back what the enemy has stolen from them. God has a plan for your life: a plan to bring you out of the desolation to a place where you can begin to help others. May you find hope and healing as you continue on your journey toward restoration.

What Can I Do About Him Me?

By Rhyll Ann Croshaw

An honest, powerful, firsthand account of both the betrayal trauma and recovery from living with or having lived with an individual struggling with a pornography and sexual addiction. Rhyll describes her illuminating pathway from gut wrenching pain and abandonment to peace and healing, providing genuine hope to all.

Counseling and Online Groups

Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery is a biblical and balanced program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits. It is based on the actual words of Jesus rather than psychological theory. 25 years ago, Saddleback Church launched Celebrate Recovery with 43 people. It was designed as a program to help those struggling with hurts, habits and hang-ups by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through a recovery process. Celebrate Recovery has helped more than 17000 people at Saddleback, attracting over 70% of its members from outside the church. Eighty-five percent of the people who go through the program stay with the church and nearly half serve as church volunteers.

GPS Groups

Changing Lanes offers an option to find hope in a small group online. In GPS Groups, you will find a safe, relational, confidential and authentic community to heal in your journey through porn or sex addiction.

His Porn. Your Pain. Healed: Coaching for Wives

When a man’s porn habit is damaging his relationship, Porn Pain Healed will go to bat for the woman—while still calling forth his nobility—so they can heal and have the relationship they’d always envisioned.

L.I.F.E. Recovery International

L.I.F.E. Recovery International is a Christ-centered support group ministry whose mission is to encourage, empower, and equip God’s people to live everyday in sexual integrity. L.I.F.E. provides consistently-revised workbook resources, educational multimedia presentations, and support group structure to the Christian community across the globe. Their three ongoing objectives are: Breaking Isolation, Bringing Freedom, and Building Leaders. Their goal is to plant and support L.I.F.E. sexual addiction recovery support groups within 20 miles of anyone seeking recovery from sexual impurity.

Porn is Killing Me Recovery Coaching

This coach works with 10 individuals. During that year, participants will have two phone calls a month, homework, challenges, and regular support. They will also have access to all of other areas of the Porn is Killing Me site.

Pure Desire

Pure Desire specializes in the treatment of sexual addiction and intimacy disorders within the Christian community. Each clinician at Pure Desire has years of training and experience in assessment and treatment of sex addiction. Treatment is provided with close attention to confidentiality and respect for each client. The Pure Desire treatment program is biblically-based and clinically-sound, integrating individual counseling, couples counseling (when the spouse is impacted), and group therapy.

Victory Teleconference Groups

Are you ready to face the addiction and grow past it once and for all? You may be looking for answers and have already tried to do it on your own, only to discover that it doesn’t quite work that way. We all need support and expertise when it comes to facing such a “giant!” That’s where Jayson Graves and Healing for the Soul can help: you can receive individual and marital therapeutic support (and even groups) over the telephone, from anywhere in the world!

DVD/Video Presentations

Biblical Sexuality & The 21st Century

Biblical Sexuality & The 21st Century, a new course by Jayson Graves, is a biblically ‘sex-positive’ look at God’s model of sexuality, its design, meaning, purpose and challenges therein. Each DVD set contains ten lectures and is bundled with a syllabus/study booklet.

The Conquer Series

KingdomWorks Studios presents a cinematic teaching series on sexual purity to help men discover the root of bondage, while offering proven principles and practical tools to conquer pornography addiction and find freedom. The Conquer Series is not about behavior modification, but heart transformation. This life-changing, five-week discipleship curriculum provides insights from top Christian leaders who provide biblical strategies and scientific facts, and teach men how to use God’s weapons to become conquerors.

Freedom Begins Here Small Group Pack

The Small Group Guide shows you how to use the Freedom Begins Here material to create a safe place where your group can be challenged and equipped to guard their hearts, flee temptation and find complete freedom from sexual sin. The 30-Day Devotional Journal easily adapts to 6 weeks of group meetings, the DVD’s chapter divisions are easily accessible, and the addition of some simple group dynamics allows this powerful content to be discussed, digested, and activated.

The Heart of the Matter

Directed by Jessica Mockett, this is the first documentary to give an honest, powerful portrait of what it means to be a Christian addicted to pornography. This one-of-a-kind film brings hope to a subject typically shrouded in shame and silence. Your heart will be opened and your faith elevated as you watch this film with your family, church, and community.

Internet Safety 101

The Internet Safety 101 Film Series, produced by Enough Is Enough and PBS, is an invaluable 3 episode teaching series for parents and caregivers to become educated, equipped and empowered to protect children from pornography, sexual predators and cyber bullies, as well as how to keep kids safe on social networking sites, gaming and mobile devices. It is led by Internet safety expert Donna Rice Hughes, who received an Emmy nomination for her role as host of the series. (Rated PG). Available on Vimeo, Hoopla and www.internetsafety101.org)

The full curriculum (also available in Spanish) consists of a 4 part DVD teaching series, Workbook/Resource Guide and is ideal for both individuals and small groups. The award-winning curriculum was developed by Enough Is Enough in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Lust Free Living

By Dr. Doug Weiss

Men can fight for and obtain a lust free lifestyle. Once you know how to stop lust, you will realize how weak it really can be. God gave you the power to protect those you love from the ravages of lust for the rest of your life! It’s time to take it back!

Sex, Love, Date

Featuring Kenny Luck and Sean McDowell, Sex, Love, Date takes young adults and those who are leading them into the most sensitive and “touchy” subject of all – how guys and girls connect. In addition to exposing the lies of the hook-up culture, it starts faith driven conversations focusing on the sexual tensions, competing voices, hard choices, and specific actions involved in really getting to know another person. In the process, young adults must face the reality of their spiritual identity and how that identity in Christ cannot be separated from other parts of their life.

Events/Training

Changing Lanes Certification

Bring Changing Lanes small groups to your community with our CL Certified training program. If you are actively pursuing options to develop a sustainable sexual addiction ministry offering to men in your community or church, CL Certified may be the right option for you.

Gateway to Freedom 3-day workshop for men

Gateway to Freedom is a 3-day workshop for men seeking to overcome pornography and any other sexual struggles and strongholds. Any man who needs a catalyst for growing in sexual integrity will benefit from this workshop.

Launch Your Mentoring Ministry

There’s a bold new solution to helping people recover from pornography: sexual integrity discipleship. Join Michael Leahy to kickstart your mentoring ministry and help the people you know find freedom.

Pure Desire University

The Pure Desire University (PD-U) is a two-day conference designed to equip the church with an understanding of the factors that create and reinforce addictive sexual behavior. It provides a comprehensive understanding and the tools required to develop a ministry that offers hope and freedom to men, women, students, and families.

Let’s Talk Workshops

The Let’s Talk Workshops are live events designed to raise awareness, educate and equip the public to be advocates for choosing to live porn free lives. Great for parents, couples, teachers, coaches, youth and young adults.

Software

Covenant Eyes

Covenant Eyes bridges the gap between technology and relationships through software to protect people on the Internet. Internet Accountability tracks websites visited on computers, smart phones, and tablets, and compiles them into an easy-to-read report using age-based content ratings. This allows people to have informed conversations about the sites they visit and the search terms they use. They have a Filter available as well.

Overcome Porn: The 40 Day Challenge app

In Overcome Porn: The 40 Day Challenge, the new app for iPhone®, you’ll get 40 days of gospel-centered articles and videos to encourage you in purity, prompts to help you think through your struggles, and a tracker to chart your progress.

Pluckeye

The Pluckeye filter runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. This free filter blocks all images and videos from the Internet by default. Designed for those who want a filter for themselves, not for their kids, it is not designed for convenience, but inconvenience.

Apps Every Parent Needs to Know About

Destiny Rescue

Destiny Rescue is an international Christian based, non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing children from human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Our vision is to rescue the sexually exploited and enslaved, restore the abused, protect the vulnerable, empower the poor and be a voice for those who can’t speak up for themselves.

filters.pluckeye.net

Pluckeye’s filters list contains a searchable list of Internet filters and monitors so that the visitor can find a filter by target device (e.g. Windows) and target audience (e.g. addict or parent). It includes Covenant Eyes, Pluckeye, Qustodio, X3Watch, and over 150 other products. The page is thought to be especially useful as an aid to research for organizations such as InternetSafety101, Lockitdown, and similar folk who want to recommend filters to their audience. It may be likewise useful for persons who want to do see what filters they can try on their particular devices.

Dr. John Foubert

The website of anti-pornography author, speaker, and consultant Dr. John D. Foubert, LLC offers up-to-date information about pornography. Look for a fact sheet about pornography drawn from the very latest research.

PORNKNOW

PORNKNOW equips the voices talking about the truth and dangers of pornography. Check out Let’s Talk TV, a video series on all stages of recovery; A Glimpse Inside, which provides information about the mind of a sex addict; and sign up for the Let’s Talk connect mailing list.